Chocolate Orphanage Rules
Cocoa Pod Workshop Rules:
1. Each person must complete a daily task of 500 jin (250 kg) of Cocoa Beans.
Second, keep quiet, quiet, quiet while working!
3. When you see a dark shadow passing by outside the window, immediately lower your head and crouch down, do not open your eyes, and firmly believe that you did not see anything.
Fourth, remember that the Disciplinarian Director will not turn into a monster. If you see a monster, it's just your eyes playing tricks on you, and you need to close your eyes and rest immediately.
5. No one is allowed to enter the studio after work hours! If you hear any noise in the studio after work hours, please ignore it or inform the Disciplinarian Director. The Disciplinarian Director will give you extra points as a reward.
6. Cocoa Beans cannot speak or eat people. If you see any of the above hallucinations, please immediately seek help from the Disciplinarian Director.
"The Rules specifically state that you can't enter after work, there must be something secret here," Mi Chuchu said after a quick glance.
"I wonder what we'll see once we're inside, and if there's any hidden information?" Tao Yuan also asked.
Lin Yi couldn't read, but he knew the basic Rules here. Upon hearing this, he immediately said, "I already said we can't come after work. You still want to come?"
Qin Rang was also puzzled. "Are you courting death?"
"Don't you want to see?" Tao Yuan retorted. "We've come here because we have our own methods. We'll take you all with us. An Ying, have you noticed anything?"
"I've also found the Rules here, the Rules for this Instance." An Ying took out a white A4 sheet of paper.
"Instance Rules? Where did you find this?" the group asked in surprise.
"It's in the Back Mountain," An Ying said. "I went to the outer edge of the Back Mountain, but I couldn't find a way in. I only found this under the rocks outside."
Lin Yi and Qin Rang also didn't understand the words on the paper, but they understood the meaning of An Ying's words.
"You're going to the Back Mountain? I know how to get there," Qin Rang said.
Lin Yi also said, "If you can't get in, you must have come to the wrong place."
"How about we go check out the Back Mountain tomorrow?" Tao Yuan asked.
"Okay," the two children agreed.
Only then did everyone seriously look at the A4 sheet filled with Rules.
[Chocolate Orphanage Rules (Part 1):]
I. Chocolate Orphanage welcomes all children.
Second, children must abide by the Rules and regulations, and remember that the Orphanage is their home.
Third, the Orphanage Director is a good person, but the Orphanage Director cannot be trusted.
Fourth, the Disciplinarian Director is a bad person; the Disciplinarian Director can be trusted.
5. Chocolate is poisonous, do not eat it!
6. Do not go out at night without permission. If you must go out, please rest in the Back Mountain, but be careful not to be discovered.
7. Do not let your score drop below 50 points. If you unfortunately fall below 50 points, please restore your score as soon as possible.
8. Don't let it discover that you can see it! Don't try to find out who it is!
That concludes the Rules on paper; however, this is only "Rules one."
"Seven Rules are only one; this Instance must be S-Rank." Wang Ding gravely.
Tao Yuan carefully read through the Rules and asked curiously, "I have the Dining Hall's Rules, but they seem to conflict with yours."
[Dining Hall and Prayer Room Rules:]
1. Please keep quiet while dining.
Second, you must queue to receive your meal. Dirtying your tableware or cutting in line are considered disruptive behavior.
Third, Chocolate is safe and is a token of recognition.
IV. Praise for the Mr. Benefactor
Fifth, the Orphanage Director is despicable, the Orphanage Director is trustworthy.
6. Statues are sacred and inviolable; do not provoke them.
7. Pray sincerely, and it will hear your wishes.
Three sets of Rules are laid out before us, and none of them are simple.
"The studio's Rules are relatively easy to deal with; we've already gone through the first four," Mi Chuchu recounted what they had encountered.
After hearing this, Wang Ding asked Lin Yi, "Do people often steal achievements here? Why hasn't anyone told the Disciplinarian Director?"
Lin Yi calmly said, "Because they are C-level, we are D-Rank, and I might even drop back to F-level after tonight."
Qin Rang continued, "C-level students are always more favored than D-Rank in everything they do. Even if it's a C-level student's fault, as long as they don't go too far, the Disciplinarian Director will turn a blind eye."
"Someone complained after their work was stolen, and since then, we haven't seen them again."
Tao Yuan put the Cocoa Beans in her hand into the box and asked, "Is the person who complained dead?"
"The director said he left the Orphanage and is probably wandering somewhere now," Qin Rang said.
"The captain was so easy to fool when he was little..." Mi Chuchu muttered. If he believed such a thing, that child was probably already dead.
Wang Ding placed the two Rule Slips together and suddenly said, "Look, the studio's Rules are very similar to the Dining Hall's Rules."
Several people crowded around to observe together.
"These two Rules seem to be Rules set for us by the director here, or someone of higher rank; they were set by themselves."
"But the Rules of the Chocolate Orphanage are more like the Rules of Instance."
Tao Yuan pointed to rule number five in the Chocolate Orphanage's Rules, "Chocolate is poisonous," and then to rule number three in the Dining Hall's Rules Chocolate is safe," and said, "Are there contradictions in these Rules, or are these two 'Chocolate' rules not referring to the same thing?"
An Ying asked, "Old Wang, do you have Item to verify if the Rules are real or fake?"
"There are two more, but we can only confirm two correct Rules. Sister Tao, do you have any more?"
Some Instance have hidden traps in their Rules, and some Instance play with wording, but all of this is based on the premise that the Rules are "correct".
When encountering Rules with many contradictions, you can use the "Weird Object" feature to take a shortcut and determine which rule is correct.
"My mother gave me quite a few." Tao Yuan took out five or six Weird Objects and said, "Here, examine them one by one."
Wow, they're so rich...
[To verify each item one by one—this is something I never even dared to imagine.]
[A Weird Object that can verify the Rules must be selling for an astronomical price by now, right?]
[These Rules are making me dizzy; there are just too many of them.]
Am I the only one who thinks Lin Yi was quite cute as a child? Like Qin Rang, he wasn't very talkative, but he was a nice person, unlike the other kids in the neighborhood.
[Are all the kids here like this? They don't talk much. With such strict discipline, who would dare to speak up?]
Is he really Lin Yi from our neighborhood? Or is it just a coincidence that they share the same name?
[I don't know why, but seeing Qin Rang looking at Tao Yuan and the others with such unfamiliarity makes me feel really sad...]
As he watched the comments scrolling through the live stream, Director Chen, unusually relaxed, joked, "Head of the Tao Family, your Peach Family is quite wealthy."
Sitting next to him, Tao Yun smiled and said, "This trip is dangerous, so I just spent some money to buy them some things for self-defense."
After a few days, they finally suppressed the strange rioters again. Today, they had a rare moment of relaxation and came over to keep an eye on the live broadcast with Director Chen.
"Was there any new information on the Organization Forum that I showed you this morning?" Director Chen asked his subordinate beside him.
The subordinate replied, "Minister, there's nothing for now. News from the organization has been scarce since the New Year."